Blog Posts by Eric Pfeiffer

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer announced that she has vetoed a bill that would have allowed state businesses to discriminate against gay and lesbian customers.

“The bill is broadly worded and could result in unintended and negative consequences," Brewer told reporters at a press conference on Wednesday. "After weighing all of the arguments I have vetoed Senate Bill 1062 moments ago.”

Despite the short notice, a large crowd of demonstrators quickly gathered outside the state capital in Phoenix before Brewer made her remarks. The crowd of demonstrators erupted into cheers after Brewer’s announcement.

Senate bill 1062 generated national attention after it was passed by the Republican controlled legislature. However, its momentum quickly stalled after it was criticized by a number of local business leader and the state’s two Republican U.S. Senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake.

In a new report, the Wall Street Journal says the request was filed by the Justice Department, citing lawsuits being filed against the administration’s data collection program from groups including the American Civil Liberties Union.

The request came on the same day that Slashgear reported on a leak of possible administration reforms to the NSA program. Some of the ideas include scrapping the data collection program altogether or asking private telephone companies to collect and house the raw data themselves. However, the private companies are reportedly reluctant to take on the data collection burden out of fears it would open them up to lawsuits similar to those being filed against the government.

Under current law, the government is required to destroy data that has been captured by the NSA or other agencies

Li Guixin submitted a complaint to a district court in Hebei province, asking the Shijiazhuang Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau to "perform its duty to control air pollution according to the law,” according to the state-run Chinese language publication Yanzhao Metropolis Daily.

The World Health Organization’s China representative told a briefing in Beijing on Monday that both the government and industries in China need to make a better effort to curb pollution levels across the country.

In a major surprise to no one, it was a huge hit, with Danielle Lei selling 117 boxes in just two hours.

Danielle’s mother Carol said she supervised the sale on Monday and that it was the second time she’s allowed her two daughters to sell their Girl Scout Cookies outside of a Green Cross establishment.

"You put it in terms that they may understand," Carol said in an interview with Mashable, who first reported the story. "I'm not condoning it, I'm not saying go out in the streets and take marijuana [...] It also adds a little bit of cool factor. I can be a cool parent for a little bit."

“What he did, when he found out he could write, I changed his whole life.”

Yahoo News was on hand for the taping when Chong decided to go into detail about his role in shaping the book that would eventually become the best-selling memoir and basis for the blockbuster 2013 film “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

“All he did at the time was play tennis,” Chong continued. “Finally, he asked me what I was doing and I told him: writing a book.”

In fact, about 30 percent of people seeking medical treatment for a cat bite need hospitalization to treat the wound.

“Among hand surgeons, this is not really as surprising,” Dr. Brian Carlsen, who led the study, told Yahoo News in a phone interview. “But there really isn’t good literature out there.”

The three-year study confirms what hand surgeons like Carlsen have long suspected — that most people who suffer from serious cat bites simply assume the wounds will heal on their own.

“Cat bite injuries to the hand can progress to serious infection,” reads an excerpt from the study. “The treatment of such infections often requires hospitalization, intravenous antibiotic therapy, and operative treatment … these findings

Orbiting spacecraft captured the imagery, which appears to show liquid flowing down a slope on the planet’s surface during a seasonal change in which surface temperatures rise.

“We still don't have a smoking gun for existence of water in RSL, although we're not sure how this process would take place without water," said Lujendra Ojha, lead author of the new report and a graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. RSL refers to recurring slope lineae, the techincal term for the potential water flow.

“The flow of water, even briny water, anywhere on Mars today would be a major discovery,

Put simply, the bug prohibits users from revoking an app’s access to their personal information on Facebook’s permissions page.

Amar and his Israel-based team discovered the bug while testing their app, which allows users to control privacy settings on various Facebook games, apps and functions. When they went to the privacy settings for some of the site’s biggest apps, they realized they couldn’t access the user settings.

Put simply, the bug prohibits users from revoking an app’s access to their personal information on Facebook’s permissions page.

Amar and his team discovered the bug while testing their app, which allows users to control privacy settings on various Facebook games, apps and functions. When they went to the privacy settings for some of the site’s biggest apps, they realized they couldn’t access the user settings.

That would mean cancer diagnoses would rise from an estimated annual total of 14 million to 22 million. Deaths from cancer are also expected to rise during the same period, from 8.2 million deaths a year to 13 million.

The WHO’s World Cancer Report says that health care providers around the world will not be able to address the problem by simply treating cancer patients. In fact, the report argues that current cancer treatment costs — estimated at an annual $1.16 trillion — are already hurting major world economies.

Instead, the organization advises that governments focus on prevention and early diagnoses.

"We cannot treat our way out of the cancer problem," Christopher Wild, director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, told CNN. "More commitment to prevention and early detection is desperately needed in order to complement